Originally posted by: clevi

Hi

i have an AIX machine 5300-06 with Service Pack 2.
in order to install DB2 9.5 the requirements are 5306-02(which i have) and also APAR IZ03063.
this APAR is part of 5306 SP 4.
is there any way i can download and install only this APAR and not the all SP4?
in the past i was able to search FIX by "APAR or abstract" and in this way to download specific APAR.
for some reason i'm Unable to do that right now in the IBM website.
does anyone have any idea how acn i find this APAR??

in the Fix Cetnral i can only download entire SP and not specific APAR.

Thanks!
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Originally posted by: varunkumars

Hi

1) An APAR (Authorized Program Analysis Report) is a bunch of software
patches that solves many problems while a PTF (is the same as Fix and
means Program Temporary Fix) is a patch that solves one specific problem.
You will download Maintenance Levels (ML) as APARs from IBM Software Web
Site.

2) You should install the latest Maintenance Level for the AIX version you
have installed (usually a big bunch of software up to 650 MB that needs
almost 1GB space to be decompressed and installed). As AIX 5L is new
technology from IBM they're patching many problems and generating ML very
often. You can download from
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/support/pserie s/aixfixes.html

3) First, you have to know which Fix or PTF to install, then download it
from the above web link, then copy to a location in the server (usually
PTF's are copied to /usr/sys/inst.images directory as well as there's
enough space (what i do is to create a new FS of some 2 GB dize and mount
it over /usr/sys/inst.images, after installing the APAR or PTF i just
delete the FS without deleting the mount point). Then uncompress or unzip,
untar, whatever, and using the fastpath smitty update_all in AIX you
can install or preview the installation of any patches. I recommend using
preview option before real installation and also recommend installing
patches in APPLIED status, that is, both either original or old version
and newest version of the software are installed, so you can REJECT the
installation of any patch.

Hope this helps.
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